All ODU theses and dissertations since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles to 1976 of dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.

To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Research by College, Department, Center page.

At some point, backfiles for all master's theses will be scanned and added. In the meantime, consult the library guide for "Dissertations & Theses" to find older items in print.

See the Graduate School site for information on submitting your ETD.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Dissertation: DNA Repair Deficiency in Huntington's Disease Fibroblasts and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Peter Anthony Mollica

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Dissertation: The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Ethical Behavior: A Case Study of Administrative Employees at a Mid-Atlantic University, Najwa Mordhah

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Dissertation: Exploring the Relationship Between Receipt of Counseling Services and College Students' Academic Success, Catherine Moss

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Dissertation: Honor, Courage, Commitment: Understanding Sexual Assault in the United States Navy, Caitlin Veronica Muldoon

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Dissertation: Lower Extremity Biomechanics in Individuals With and Without Previous Hamstring Injury, Jessica A. Mutchler

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Thesis: The Differential Effect of Anticipated Work-Family Conflict on the STEM Major Embeddedness of Men and Women, Dante P. Myers

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention and Asset Pricing, Nadia Asmaa Nafar

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Dissertation: Dwelling in Time, Dwelling in Structures: Disintegration in World Politics, Jan Adam Nalaskowski

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Dissertation: Investigation of the Potential for Algaenan to Produce Hydrocarbon Based Fuels From Algae by Hydrous Pyrolysis, Wassim Adel Obeid

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Dissertation: Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Ultracold Argon and Krypton Confined in a Magneto Optical Trap, Maha Khaled Omar

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Dissertation: Identities and Interactions in a Transcultural Online Collaboration Project, Zsuzsanna Bacsa Palmer

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Thesis: Parallel Two-Dimensional Unstructured Anisotropic Delaunay Mesh Generation for Aerospace Applications, Juliette Kelly Pardue

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Dissertation: Molecular Phylogenetics and Historical Biogeography of the Tribe Chiococceae (Rubiaceae), Sushil Kumar Paudyal

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Dissertation: An Exploration of Health Providers' Responses to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in Malaysia, Kee Pau

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Dissertation: International Venture Capital Firms Syndication and Performance: A Social Network Perspective, Amir Pezeshkan

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Dissertation: A Risk Assessment of the Impacts of Coastal Flooding and Sea Level Rise on the Existing and New Pump Stations 113, Norfolk, VA, David A. Pezza

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Dissertation: Studies of Two-Nucleon Interactions and Few-Body Electromagnetic Structure in Chiral Effective Field Theory, Maria Piarulli

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Dissertation: A Preliminary Study Investigating Motivational Factors Influencing Part-time Faculty to Seek Employment at Community Colleges, Philip Eugene Pons Jr.

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Dissertation: Hydrothermal Catalytic Liquefaction and Deoxygenation of Biomass for Renewable Fuel Production, Sergiy Popov

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Dissertation: Examining the Relationship Between Leadership Decision Making Styles and Personality Type Within the Department of Defense, Antoine Lamont Prince Sr.

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Dissertation: The Impact of the C. L. E. A. R. (Challenge Leading to Engagement, Achievement, and Results) Curriculum Model on Reading Achievement at the Third Grade Level, Robin Gale Puryear

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Dissertation: Wildlife Crime and Other Challenges to Resource System Resilience, Patricia Anne Raxter

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Thesis: Predictors of Self-Esteem in Children Exposed to Potentially Traumatic Events, Colleen Michelle Ray

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Thesis: Accuracy Comparison of Numerical Integration Algorithms for Real-Time Hybrid Simulations, Ganesh Anant Reddy

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Dissertation: In Search of Autonomy: Nepal as a Wedge State Between India and China, Sagar Rijal

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Thesis: Residential Segregation in Norfolk, Virginia: How the Federal Government Reinforced Racial Division in a Southern City, 1914-1959, Kevin Lang Ringelstein

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Dissertation: Pedagogy at Play: Gamification and Gameful Design in the 21st-Century Writing Classroom, Danielle Roney Roach

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Thesis: Examining the Factors Related to Bisexual Individuals' Preference for Future Parenting Partner, Laurin Beth Roberts

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Dissertation: The Effect of Preferred Visual Aesthetic on Focused Attention, Use Intention, and Persistence in an Instructional Simulation, Don Grady Robison

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Dissertation: Characterizing Queue Dynamics at Signalized Intersections From Probe Vehicle Data, Semuel Yacob Recky Rompis

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Dissertation: Program Standards for Establishing High Quality Postsecondary Trade and Industrial Education Programs, Beno Rubin

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Dissertation: Detecting, Modeling, and Predicting User Temporal Intention, Hany M. SalahEldeen

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Dissertation: The Effects of Incorporating Interactive Questioning During Shared Electronic Book Reading on Preschoolers' Comprehension, Lynda Gail Salmon

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Thesis: A Survey of Aquatic Organisms for the Cyanotoxin Beta-Methylamino-L-Alanine (BMAA), Ian M. Sammler

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Dissertation: PTSD Symptom Severity and Neurocognitive Performance as a Function of Combined TMS and Imaginal Exposure in OIF/OEF Combat Veterans with Treatment Resistant PTSD, Katharine Seagly

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Dissertation: Supervised Classification Using Copula and Mixture Copula, Sumen Sen

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Dissertation: Creating Memories: Writing and Designing More Memorable Documents, James Eric Sentell

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Dissertation: Multichannel Characterization of Brain Activity in Neurological Impairments, Yalda Shahriari

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Dissertation: Wireless Networking for Vehicle to Infrastructure Communication and Automatic Incident Detection, Sarwar Aziz Sha-Mohammad

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Thesis: Molecular Phylogeny of the Genus Houstonia and Allies in Rubiaceae, Hunter Lee Shanks

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Dissertation: Meson Photo-Couplings From Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, Christian J. P. Shultz

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Dissertation: Computational Development for Secondary Structure Detection From Three-Dimensional Images of Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Dong Si

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Dissertation: Command and Control in the Information Age: A Case Study of a Representative Air Power Command and Control Node, Marvin Leo Simpson Jr.

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Development, Adam Smith

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Thesis: Groundwater Thresholds for Root Decomposition and the Relation to Barrier Island Ecological State Changes, Matthew Lee Smith

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Dissertation: A Mixed Methods Study of the Intersection of Sexual Orientation and Spiritual Development in the College Experience, Kevin C. Snow

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Dissertation: Exploring the Effect of Climate Change on Biological Systems, Nardos Sori

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Thesis: Perceptions of Social Control in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods and Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Use: Are They Related?, Kanita Shiquia Sumner

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Dissertation: Study of Photochemical Formation of Hydroxyl Radical in Natural Waters, Luni Sun

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Thesis: Comparing Nutrient Recovery via Rapid (Flash Hydrolysis) and Conventional Hydrothermal Liquefaction Processes for Microalgae Cultivation, Caleb Richard Talbot

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Thesis: Potential for Biocontrol of Environmental Vibrio Spp. by Predatory Bacteria Bacteriovorax, Patrick Tennis

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Dissertation: Uncertainty Estimates and Prediction Interval Development for Internal Strain Gage Balance Calibration Systems, Kenneth G. Toro

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Dissertation: Two-Year and Four-Year Tertiary Education: Measuring Human Capital Effects on Economic Growth in Developing and Developed Countries with the Uzawa-Lucas Model, Darryl M. Tyndorf

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Dissertation: A Phenomenological Case Study Concerning Science Teacher Educators' Beliefs and Teaching Practices About Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Preparing K-12 Science Teachers to Engage African American Students in K-12 Science, Janice Bell Underwood

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Thesis: Employee Opportunism in Two Early Modern British Trading Companies, Robert Franklin Unger

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Dissertation: The Role of Diversity on Team Effectiveness in a Multinational and Multicultural Military Environment, Mustafa Utoglu

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Dissertation: New Engineering Approaches to Arrhythmias and Myocardial Infarction, Frency Varghese

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Dissertation: A Framework and System for a Multi-Model Decision Aid for Sustainable Farming Practices, Kasi Bharath Vegesana

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Thesis: Dental Consumers' Perceptions of Dental Hygienists with Visible Tattoos, Amanda Brooke Verissimo

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Thesis: The Effects of Pre-Maximal Exertion Inhalation of Ammonia and the Performance Effects During Deadlift Maximal Tests, Justin Nicholas Vigil

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Thesis: Mobile Cloud Computing Based Non Rigid Registration for Image Guided Surgery, Arun Brahmavar Vishwanatha

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Dissertation: Zero-Inflated Models to Identify Transcription Factor Binding Sites in ChIP-seq Experiments, Sameera Dhananjaya Viswakula

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Dissertation: Proclivity or Popularity? Exploring Agent Heterogeneity in Network Formation, Xiaotian Wang

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Dissertation: Safety Culture Monitoring: A Management Approach for Assessing Nuclear Safety Culture Health Performance Utilizing Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis, James Harold Warren Jr.

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Thesis: Assessing the Effectiveness of an Interval Estimation and a Visual-Spatial Secondary Task as Measures of Mental Workload During Laparoscopy, Levi Parker Warvel

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Dissertation: Development of a Practical Visual-Evoked Potential-Based Brain-Computer Interface, Nicholas R. Waytowich

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Dissertation: A Study of a Simulated Infectious Disease on Healthcare Workers' Reaction, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Performance Towards Hand Hygiene, Lydia Wigglesworth-Ballard

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Dissertation: Exploring Conceptualization and Operationalization of Interorganizational Interactions: An Empirical Study, Andrew Paul Williams

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Dissertation: Source-Specific Molecular Signatures for Light-Absorbing Organic Aerosols, Amanda Susan Willoughby

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Dissertation: Catalysis of Stark-Tuned Interactions Between Ultracold Rydberg Atoms, Aye Lu Win

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Dissertation: Determining the Prevalence and Distribution of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Southeastern Virginia and Exploring the Transmission Dynamics of Rickettsia Parkeri in Amblyomma Maculatum, Chelsea L. Wright Thompson

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Dissertation: Ablation of Cardiac Tissue with Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields: Experiments and Numerical Simulations, Fei Xie

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Dissertation: The Effects of Function-Based Thinking on Teacher Selection of Interventions for Disruptive Student Behavior, Kimberly Yanek

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Dissertation: Perceptions of Impediments to the Advancement of Women Leaders in Community Colleges, Teresa Alley Yearout

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Dissertation: State Variable Model for Unsteady Two Dimensional Axial Vortex Flow with Pressure Relaxation, Mazin Mohammed Elbakri Abuharaz

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Dissertation: The Impacts of In-State Procurement Preference Policies on the Economy of South Carolina, Sawsan A. Abutabenjeh

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Dissertation: Direct Measurements of Two Photon Exchange on Lepton-Proton Elastic Scattering Using Simultaneous Electron-Positron Beams in CLAS, Dasuni Kalhari Adikaram

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Thesis: Effects of Simultaneous Alarms on Resolution Heuristics, Amanda C. Allen

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Thesis: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Barriers Toward Evidence-Based Practice Among Oral Health Professionals in Saudi Arabia, Sukainah Abdulwahab Almeedani

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Dissertation: Web Archive Services Framework for Tighter Integration Between the Past and Present Web, Ahmed AlSum

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Thesis: Crustal Accretion and Mantle Geodynamics at Microplates: Constraints from Gravity Analysis and Numerical Modeling, Katherine Ames

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Dissertation: The Impact of Multiple Nursery Areas on the Population Structure of Atlantic Menhaden, Brevooria tyrannus, Kristen A. Anstead

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Dissertation: Using Two Formats of a Social Story to Increase the Social-Communication Skills of Three Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Nicole A. Anthony

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Dissertation: Meshless Mechanics and Point-Based Visualization Methods for Surgical Simulations, Rifat Aras

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Dissertation: Modeling Stem Cell Population Dynamics, Samiur Arif

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Dissertation: Reducing Intrinsic Cognitive Load in Complex Learning Such as Flight Training That Involves Both Cognitive and Psychomotor Tasks, Adil Aslan

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Dissertation: Role of Surface Chemistry in Nanoscale Electrokinetic Transport, Secuk Atalay

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Dissertation: Transparent Spectrum Co-Access in Cognitive Radio Networks, Jonathan Daniel Backens

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Dissertation: A Systems-Based Framework for the Assessment of Performance Measurement System Implementations in R&D Organizations, Kenneth S. Baggett Jr.

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Dissertation: Weak Links in a Dangerously Fractured Region: Fragile State as Global Threats, Tasawar ul-Rahim Baig

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Thesis: Predation Thresholds in Marine Microbial Communities Applied to Environments with Low Prey Abundances, Bonnie Bailey

Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Earnings Management in Emerging Markets, Shuji Rosey Bao

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Dissertation: Human Capital Management Within the Federal Government Utilizing Generational Stratification With a Focus on Generation Y, Ian Nathaniel Barford

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Dissertation: Characterization of an Impulse Radiating Antenna in the Near Field, Chandra Barjracharya

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Dissertation: Time-Based Collision Risk Modeling for Air Traffic Management, Alan E. Bell

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Thesis: Default Effects in the Endorsement of Environmental Policies, Blake J. Bent

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Thesis: Mutual Performance Monitoring in Virtual Teams, Nathan Haugejorde Bjornberg

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Thesis: The Influence of Childhood Maltreatment on Substance Abuse in Adulthood, James Michael Blinco

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Dissertation: An Investigation of Business Transformation Disruptors at the Military Strategic Command Level, Thomas Bock

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Dissertation: Applying Leadership Theory to the Work-Family Interface: Examining the Interactive Effects of Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors and Leader-Member Exchange Quality, Heather M. Bolen